Found (69) clinical trials

Surgical resection is the primary therapy for a variety of benign and malignant diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Advances in the perioperative care surgical technique and imaging modalities have significantly improved the outcome of patients with major abdominal resections within the past three decades. However, the incidence of postoperative complications ...

The drug Dexmedetomidine will be investigated in 72 patients (men and women) undergoing elective cardiac or abdominal surgery. The study medication will be administered perioperatively by intravenous infusion continuously (at the longest 48 h) to prevent/reduce the rate of Delirium and the incidence of postoperative cognitive deficit (POCD). A non-surgical ...

The proposed pilot study is evaluating the use of Exparel in an anesthesia protocol for patients undergoing major lower abdominal gynecologic surgery. Exparel is a formulation of liposomal bupivicaine that is reputed to have a much longer duration of action compares to bupivacaine. Exparel has been originally demonstrated to be ...

This partially randomized clinical trial studies surgery or non-surgical management in treating patients with intra-abdominal cancer and bowel obstruction. Bowel obstruction is a common problem for advanced cancer patients and can negatively affect quality of life. It is not yet known whether surgery or non-surgical management is the best treatment ...

Patients undergoing major surgery are exposed to extensive damage of tissues, which induces widespread activation of the inflammatory system, called 'systemic inflammatory response syndrome' (SIRS).This activation of the inflammatory system may induce instability of the heart and respiration in the postoperative period. The degree of physiologic response to postoperative SIRS ...

The main objective of the study is twofold: Assess the clinical efficacy of DBS on epilepsy according to their number and severity at 1 year follow up. Perform a cost-effectiveness analysis from the perspective of Medicare at 1 and 2 years. The study hypothesis is that thalamic DBS (neurostimulation of ...

The open repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a painful surgery. Patients suffering from AAA are at high risk of perioperative cardiovascular and pulmonary complications. It has been previously suggested that a bad perioperative pain control could increase the incidence of such complications. Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with morphine ...

the investigor will register the morbimotality after 6 months of follow up, in patient older than 65 year old using the CRISTAL score modify, undergoing abdominal surgery. The measure the investigators are using are: Barthel scale, Frail score, Mininutritional score, Clavien-Dindo modify, frailty. The objective of the study is to ...

On the basis of the analysis of 7 cases were selected by laparoscopic treatment of cholecystolithiasis complicated with choledocholithiasis bile duct suture in patients with a clinical data of our hospital were prospectively divided into peritoneal drainage group of 40 cases, no abdominal drainage group of 40 cases, compared two ...